19“Mrs. Packard”： Mayor Sherman, as quoted by EP, MPE, 51.
20“I must say”： Ibid.
21“The only way”： EP, MK, 15 [italics added].
22“I chose the”： Ibid.
23“I don’t want”： EP, TE, 16.
24“Being in the”： EP, MK, 41.
25“My case is”： EP, “Appeal to the Government for Protection,” in TE, 154–58.
26“I am resolved”： EP, PHL, 253.
27“her page became”： Madaline Reeder Walter, “Insanity, Rhetoric, and Women: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Asylum Narratives,” （PhD diss., University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2011）， 82, https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10355/11577/WalterInsRheWom.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.
28“To my beloved”： EP, TE, 5.
29“The mother has”： Ibid., 6.
30“Women are made”： EP, GD, 1:275.
PART SIX: SHE WILL RISE
EPIGRAPHS
1“Every woman who”： Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things To Me （Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014）。
2“Prostitute. Whore”： Janet Fitch, White Oleander （New York: Little, Brown, 1999）。
CHAPTER 48
1“house…upon”： “Levee at the Governor’s,” Illinois Journal, January 23, 1867.
2“I intend to”： EP, GD, 2:115.
3“I am now”： EP, letter to the Gazette and Courier, in “Mrs. Packard’s Book,” Gazette and Courier, June 13, 1864.
4“Reforms succeed”： EP, MK, 54.
5“My experience”： EP, MPE, 61.
6“platform of”： Ibid., 107.
7“many persons”： “Levee at the Governor’s.”
8“the complicated machinery”： EP, MP2, 209.
9“ignorantly…upon”： Ibid.
10“Where do you”： EP, TE, 75.
11“In woman!”： Ibid.
12“another kidnapping”： EP, MK, 33.
13“Our society”： Samuel E. Sewall, letter to Samuel J. May, 1868, in Nina Moore Tiffany, Samuel E. Sewall: A Memoir （Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1898）， 141.
14“in a most”： EP, MPE, 108.
15“I say I have”： EP, GD, 2:49.
16“secret frameups”： “Evolution of Mental Health Laws in Nineteenth Century United States,” Encyclopaedia Britannica Library Research Service, 5, Barbara Sapinsley Papers. Original source is possibly Albert Deutsch, The Mentally Ill in America （New York: Columbia University Press, 1962）， 420–28.
17“a dozen”： Boston Daily Advertiser, quoted in Thomas H. O’Connor, Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield （Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997）， 228.
18“any woman entering”： EP’s proposed bill, as submitted to the Connecticut General Assembly of 1866, quoted in MP2, 406.
19“inexpedient to make”： Mr. Wait, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, as quoted by EP, ibid., 294.
20“No such thing”： EP, MK, 54.
21“My work ain’t”： EP, GD, 2:76.
22“one uniform testimony”： EP in De Wolf, “Public Institutions.”
23“lest their own”： Ibid.
24“These letters came”： AM, quoted by EP, ibid.
25“Ah!”： EP, ibid. [italics added].
26“the verdict of”： EP, MPE, 85.
27“severe comment”： Kankakee Gazette, article reproduced in “The Case of Mrs. Packard,” Chicago Tribune, January 28, 1864.
28“a substantial dinner” and following quotations: “A Day Among the State Institutions,” Jacksonville Sentinel, January 31, 1867.
29“perfectly in raptures”： “Excursion to Jacksonville,” Illinois Journal, January 11, 1867.
30“well conducted”： “Day Among the State Institutions.”
31“able and accomplished”： “Insane Hospital Report,” Jacksonville Sentinel, February 2, 1867.
32“sham trial”： AM, letter to Mrs. Alma E. Eaton, in “Packard Controversy.”
33“very high degree”： Ibid.
34“I wonder that”： Ibid.
35“I intend to”： EP, MPE, 99.
CHAPTER 49
1“Nothing venture”： EP, MK, 127.
2“What is the object” and following quotations: Conversation between Governor Richard Oglesby and EP, recounted by EP in MP2, 191.
3“prudent management”： Richard J. Oglesby, “Message from Governor Oglesby to the Twenty-Fifth General Assembly,” January 7, 1867, 11, Special Collections, Harold Washington Library, Chicago, IL.